Blue Ivy Told Rumi to “Calm It Down” After First Performance With Beyoncé, Says Tina Knowles

Blue Ivy offered calm guidance and a dose of tough love to her younger sister, Rumi Carter, after the 8-year-old made her stage debut alongside their mother, Beyoncé, during the Cowboy Carter Tour, according to their grandmother, Tina Knowles.

The 13-year-old performer, who made her debut dancing in front of packed stadiums during the Renaissance World Tour, gave Rumi a reality check after seeing social media comments about her first appearance.

“And listen, she would come out, and the first night, she was so excited. People were making all these crazy comments. And Blue was like, ‘Rumi, you might need to calm it down,'” Knowles said during her appearance on the Sherri Shepherd Show on Monday.

The advice landed. By the third or fourth show, Rumi had settled into her role and started picking out her own looks for the stage. When Knowles asked what her plan was, Rumi replied, “Be myself.”

“So she was! It was really good for her confidence,” Knowles added.

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“Listen, Rumi has been asking for the last three or four years, ‘I’m ready, Mama, I’m ready!'”Knowles said. “And her mom was like, ‘Well, this is a song that you can come out and be yourself on.'”

Meanwhile, Blue Ivy has been learning how to navigate fame with humility. Knowles said it’s important for children of celebrities to understand that success isn’t handed to them.

“Because you have to be taught that. Kids don’t learn it from just accident. You have to say to them, ‘It’s more important to be a good person.’ And that you got to work for what you get,” she said. “Nobody’s going to just hand it to you because you are somebody’s daughter or because they like you. You have to work hard.”